Looks good. +1 binding
On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > Daan, > > two quick questions: > > 1. What does your command line look like? > 2. What does the contents of your .rat-excludes file look like? > > Thank you, > Claude > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM Daan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I started testing with the convenience lib I was pointed to and found one >> backwards incompatibility; We have a snapcraft.yaml that is mentioned in >> our .rat-excludes file. It is still reported as /snap/snapcraft.yaml >> >> When the pull path is added (i.e. /snap/snapcraft.yaml instead of >> snapcraft.yaml) the check passes with 0.17 but not with 0.16.1 >> >> It does not warrant a -1 so I can give you a non-binding +0 so far. >> >> On 2025/10/12 16:44:57 "P. Ottlinger" wrote: >> > Dear friends of RAT, >> > >> > the new v0.17 is ready for testing and fixes 129 issues. I've staged a >> > new release 0.17 - thanks for all feedback and contributions! >> > >> > =Release 0.17 abstract= >> > Apart from many dependency updates and multiple bugfixes, this release >> > brings a major harmonization among all available UIs (CLI, Apache Ant, >> > Apache Maven) concerning parameters and configuration options to run >> > RAT. Therefore please consult the available extended and updated >> > documentation over at the project's webpage in order to see examples >> and >> > overviews of the new configuration options! >> > >> > RAT generates a more expressive report now as certain individually >> > configurable limits for counters exist. In case you do preprocessing of >> > the report, you need to adapt your scripts according to RAT's XSD >> schema. >> > >> > Furthermore, the inclusion/exclusion configuration (e.g. .gitignore), >> > parsing and processing in RAT was overhauled - see RAT-476 for a known >> > issue in that regard. >> > >> > Many checkstyle, spotbugs and documentation issues were fixed. >> > >> > Additionally, a new automated test suite was developed in order to ease >> > testing of edge cases and example licenses and custom license >> definitions. >> > >> > RAT's homepage contents and its generation method were modernized and a >> > lot of new documentation was added to ease configuration of RAT in your >> > project. >> > >> > The next release will remove deprecated options and classes. >> > >> > Thanks for your patience and all the feedback in the making of this >> release! >> > #bigKudosToClaude would be a proper release name. >> > >> > =View on 0.17= >> > * https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/RAT/versions/12352253 >> > (you need to login) >> > >> > * >> https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat/releases/tag/apache-rat-project-0.17 >> > >> > =Staging area= >> > >> > In order to use the staged release add this snippet to your pom: >> > <pluginRepositories> >> > <pluginRepository> >> > <id>staged-releases-rat-017</id> >> > <url> >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecreadur-1012/ >> </url> >> > <pluginRepository> >> > </pluginRepositories> >> > or browse >> > >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecreadur-1012/org/apache/rat/ >> > directly. >> > >> > =VOTE is open until 2025-10-16 23:00 UTC= >> > Everyone is encouraged to vote, express their opinions and jump in if >> > they find anything wrong with the release. Only PMC votes are binding >> > on Apache, and for this candidate to become an official Apache >> > Software Foundation release 3 +1's are required and more +1's than >> > -1's. >> > >> > This vote is open for at least 72 hours, >> > >> > [ ] +1 >> > [ ] +0 >> > [ ] -1 >> > >> > until 2025-10-16 23:00 UTC. >> > >> > NOTE >> > The downloads page and RAT webpage is not yet changed to reflect >> changes >> > in 0.17 and the dist area does not yet contain the release artifacts. >> > >> > A preview page (generated before creating the release) is: >> > https://creadur.apache.org/rat017/ >> > that will be deleted once the release is promoted. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Phil >> > >> > > > -- > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren > -- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
